89 times, when so many rude arm'd people passe dayly through it, if we be altogether d1sarm'd? My lord made no replie, but bade the men who were weighing the ponder desist:, and went downe. l\1r. Hutchinson follow'd him downe the staires, when an ancient gentleman that was sitling with my lord came and whispering him commendcd his and the countries zeal, and bade them stand to it and they would not be foyl'd. As they past through a long roome below my lord told Mr. Hutchinson he was sorry to find him in the head of a faction: Mr. 1-Iutchinson replied, he could not tell how his lordship could call that a faction which was so accidentall as his being at that time in the towne, where hea ring what was in hand, out of respect to his lordship, he only came to prevent mischiefe and danger, which he saw likelie to ensue. My lord repli ed he must informe the king, and told him his name was allready up, to which Mr. 1-Iutchinson answered that he was glad, if the king must receive an information of him, it must be from so honorable a person ; and for his name, as it rose, so in the name of God lett it faH: and so tooke his leave and went home. The rest of the country that were there determin'd to give my lord thankes for sparing their ammunition, and lockt it up with two locks, whereof the keye of the one was entrusted with the mayor of Nottingham, the other with the shcrifre of the county, which accordingly was done. • In the meane time, at Yorke, the king had sent the parliament a message, that he intended to goe in person to Ireland, and to raysc a guard for his owne person, about West Chester, which he would arme out of his magazine at Hull. But the parliament, having before intercepted !'~letter of the Lord Digbie's, sent to the q ueene & How my lord nray have reported thil:t matter to the king signifies little; but he probably remember'd as a kindness Mr. Hutchinson's interposition between him and the more rough arguments of the countrymen; for there appears to have existed, on oll suitable occasions, an intercourse of friendship during the remainder of their lives.
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